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july und and august he 0 did nit n t lime haie his ili clothes oft off for a wt k ToC he and jan stein would loud load the ith lilt the s garnering at four be he would tart start on the tedious trip into town the historic of old ila on aest ast Iland olih hoj hal become the X stand for market garde garder mrs Ars for round around here they nod 1 their wagons in preparation tor for the next text da a stiling the early comer tot got the stand 71 biere ere wae was no regular allotment of space clemus trieu tried to reach the by nine HI lit night often bd bad r i 1 t mode made a df dl I 1 our it linear i and hp lie 41 it lute late th tit t ti guilly bad ball I 1 ubina s t ati 11 1 I tie lie men wen fr for the moat lurt ji alf slept n their afons carlel up on the v ution mat or stretched bed out on the saks 1 I heir horses were ere stabled sta bleil nud fed in bearb simla lilt mort victual comfert than lie men them thein beh 1 i one could get a room r fir ir twenty file cents la in one of the rani ram shai lie rt owing houses that fat faudale d tl e street kut but the bouins bere email 11 stuff none notie too clean the beds bells little mure more comfort ible than the unk wa ns us ue be old bitka lik bent flie cents IOU got avien t ie cinta for half a barrel of tonu torna toes lou IOU got meat he dose ceta for a back slick of potatoes onions brought FA venly he me cents a sack stick Call cabbages bages went a hundred heads for two dollars aud and they were ere five pound heads it if you dune home with ten dollars in your pocket it represented a profet of ex acely zero the sum must go above that no one did not pay out twenty ove cent cents for the mere privilege of sleeping in a bed oue june day R month or more after their marriage selina droe into alil III caco cato with aenus pen us an incongruous little in her brides s finery pe perched rebeil on the beat seat of the vegetable wagon plied high with early garden bluff stuff it ns us in a way their wedding edding trip for selina had not been away from the farm farin slate her marriage As A they jogged along now she re tended magnificent plans that had bad been forr forming aln in her imagination during the past four weeks it had not talen taken her four weeks or day days to dIsc discover that thia this treat broad shouldered man he she had married was a kindly creature tender and good but lacking any ny vestige of ot initiative of spirit she marveled tit the memory of his bo boldness laness in bidding for her lundi lunch box that evening of the he raffle it teemed incredible nov to though he tre fre fluently referred to it wagging his head and grinning the broad ly y complacent pin grin of lie the conquer lne male but he was after all a dull fellow and there was in selina a dash of fire of wholesome wickedness of adventure that he never quite under stood for lier iter flashes of rattle he hid bad a mingled feeling of uneas uneasiness iners ind end pride in the manner of all young bride kelln started bravely out oat to make her ausband over he ille was strong gentle slow conservative mou roe rose she he would make him leen dar ing sNi brovont now no bump in log down don the 11 alsted roid itie she sketched etched tk some of her plans in large strokes pervus ve e must paint the house in 13 october bore b ore the frost sets in ind and after efter the eammer summer work Is over ever then thai that west hest sixteen ivell well drain it IL teh yeh braid pertus pervus muttered it its fay lay hod ind 1 train drain and you have got yet let riar elay hard ay lay toll moll selina had lie the answer to that 1 I 1 too it too igo voll rut got to M tua adnia A nian nr ani I 1 pit it I 1 in 1 I 1 loll 1 I tilia I 1 lit in ito it 1 I I 1 I 1 tal to 1 1 I 11 1 1 a ill oil i a a 1 I 11 III 1 1 il 1 1 I 1 li 1 f 1 P I 1 bif urn rn en son 1 I 11 M I 1 unita ll lr it n flip 11 9 1 I k IMF I 1 all fit 1 I I 1 V st 1 it I 1 lull a t f lilt III I 1 flirt it ill I 1 f r II 11 if 11 ur t 1 I ml 1 it 1 n 1 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the vest sixteen was as still a bope av ay enaes and and tie old house stared out shabby and ut at the dense willows illos by the roadside adept that bigi t in one of the fleeno ent rooming roo mint boutes blatti er I 1 lenus emus slept the ni raun lay wake wept ept a little perhaps but in tl tilt moraln benm I 1 arnus might ha bae noted if he had been a limn inan glen to noting not II 11 tit at tie it e tine fine jaw line was as set ft us as de 11 hi as ever hilti lilt un an anoe it atiat at spelled lied inevitably paint liu hu mus au potash acid aud and a horse horbe teun te un she rose before four with alth perri clad to be out of the stuff little artio ro it aith its spotted and anti seal green wu wit 1 paper its ricket bed and heir hair chev had a cup if f cofiel and a of bread in the eating house on the firt 1 fluor floor atlina altel while he liell landd Isid hie life hore it was as sea dau n A I 1 the trading selina watching it from the wagon agon seat sent thought unit this was as a ridiculously ha hal hazard and peril ous meth method d of distri distribution butin the fod flood for whose fruition pen us had tolled with aching esac baat and tired anna arms but she said nothing she kept perforce to the home house that first bear er and the second I 1 cervus de tie dared that his woman should never neer work in the fields as did many ninny of the high prairie Ir alrie ives and daughters selina learned much that first year and the second but she ald eaid little she kept the house in order rough work and endless and she inan managed aged mirac to keep herself looking fresh and neat she under understood now nov maartje pool 1001 a drab garments harais ho raed ed face heavily beally swift feet never neer at rest the idea of flowers in howls wr van aban boned by july had it not been for falth faithful tul tending III lie e flower beds themselves ites planted with euch such hopes would have perished fw lack cf care itself came come often to the house lie ile found there a tranquil tranquillity lit and peace nomer known in the pool place with its hubbub and clatter in order to make lier her house attract attractive he selina had aCtual lv rifled her precious little hank bank hoard the four hundred and ninety dollars left her by her father she still had one of the cleir white diamonds she site kept it seed in the hem hern of an old flannel petticoat the can of white hite paint and the brush actually did materialize for weeks it was not dangerous to sit lean or tread upon any palatable thing in the dejong farmhouse fa without eliciting a cry of warning arning from selina site would mould actually have halie tried herband hertin nd at the outside of the house with a quart can and a three inch brush it if pen clemus us haan t inte intervened she hemmed dimity curtains made cilip cover covers for th the hid ebous parlor sofa and the ugliest of f the chairs subscribed for a it ma gatine called house and garden together she and used to pore this 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much thit th it winter about the utter sordidness of farni farm life she rarely sa saw the pools she rarely sa saw any one outside her own onn little house lold I 1 old the arnt arf nt room the parlor was vias usually bitterly cold but sometimes tim slie she used to slip in there a it oer ner shoulders should and sit at the frost window to watch for a malon to so go by or a chance pedestrian up the road bhe she did not pity herself nor regret her step she felt physically prett well ell for a child hearing bearing nonine ho nitin arid perus pen us was tender kindly sym pathetic if it mt alas understanding bhe she struggled oll t antly to keep up the small decencies of existence she aimed the glow of pervus ebes a when hen she title appeared with ith a bright ribbon a fresh though he lie euld said nothing 1 and perhaps she ol 01 i fancied hat that he hp noticed one once or twice mice she had walked the mile and a half alf of slippery road tu tv ther pools ai at 4 1 had half sat in klaartje Maart Al aartje jes a warm breitm bustling kithen for comfort 1 here d venture now inow and where was aag life and where the loe ime of chance bred in her by her tier Is ither the two tao vear vears following dirk dirks a birth wire tre always somewhat ague la in larns a mind like a dream in which A bleb hor and happiness ire are inextricably blended the boy was as a plump hardy infant lie ile hail ind hie his fin millers bl bi nj ad ex el perlor hie his mothers brunette at two lie WH us a child of ai intel li gence sturdy physique and inar Lil good humor he ile almost cem neer criel he lie was as just twelve tele months old when second child a girl was as born dead twice during those ta two 0 leare ears peri aenus us fell icelin to b bis is so 0 called rheumatic attacks 8 the early spring planting when he was aas often forced to stand in water vater up to his ankles he ile suffered intensely 11 and during hie his illness was its as trac tractable tible as a goaded bull selina 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